standalone – Compile TeX pictures stand-alone or as part of a document

A class and pack­age is pro­vided which al­lows TeX pic­tures or other TeX code to be com­piled stan­dalone or as part of a main doc­u­ment. Spe­cial sup­port for pic­tures with beamer over­lays is also pro­vided.
The pack­age is used in the main doc­u­ment and skips ex­tra pream­bles in sub-files. The class may be used to sim­plify the pream­ble in sub-files. By de­fault the pre­view pack­age is used to dis­play the code with­out mar­gins.
The be­haviour in stan­dalone mode may ad­justed us­ing a con­fig­u­ra­tion file stan­dalone.cfg to re­de­fine the stan­dalone en­vi­ron­ment.